ToolNewFor Home bakers

Bakeward

Warm bread at ten on Sunday.

Pick when your sourdough should come out of the oven and it works backwards to give you feeding, mixing, folding, shaping and proofing times for your kitchen's temperature.

Download the source

Zip, 158 KB. MIT licence. Built 24 Oct 2026.

Live preview

Loading the live site…

This is the real site, not a mock-up. Click around; the button on it opens the working app.

What you get

Everything a tool needs, already done.

Pages and screens

  • Hero
  • How it works
  • Features
  • Live planner
  • Open planner app

Features

  • Schedules backwards from your chosen oven-out time
  • Adjusts every step for kitchen temperature
  • Covers feeding, mixing, folds, shaping and proofing
  • Handles overnight fridge proofs, such as 12 hours
  • Does hydration and baker's percentage maths
  • Flags steps that fall overnight with a Night badge

Palette

  • #2e2219
  • #f2e8da
  • #f1e8d8
  • #e3d6c0
  • #6f5d4c
  • #9a5a2b

Style

  • Warm
  • Editorial
  • Minimal
Bakeward on a phone
On a phone, as shipped.

For developers

A real codebase, not a page builder export.

Stack

Vite, React 19 and TypeScript for the app. The launch page is plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript with no build step. Vitest for unit tests, Playwright for browser tests.

Run it

unzip bakeward.zip
cd bakeward
npm install
npm run dev

In the zip

  • site/ the launch page with the built app in site/app/
  • src/ and e2e/ the app source and tests
  • docs/technical-docs/ architecture, runbook, quick reference
  • START-HERE.md and LICENSE (MIT)

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